Can be found easily, compact, easy to load, automatic or manual override, and equipped with fast and sharp lens make it one of the best and affordable rangefinder camera ever made. Some people call it poor man's Leica.

Rangefinder cameras are best known for the exceptionally sharp images that they produce, making them much sought after analogue goodies by lomographers and professional photographers alike. But for me, my beloved rangefinder, the Yashica Electro 35 GSN, is one best for redscaled photos. Let me show you why after the jump!

May it be a Canon AE1 or a Yashica Electro 35 or even a LC-A+, they all have one thing in common: auto exposure according to the aperture and ISO. But this system can sometimes fail in high contrast situations. This is how to handle exposure in these situations.

Conveniently located across the street from the Lomography Gallery Store Greenwich Village in NYC, the Goodwill store often carries a vintage camera in the window. So what did I do three months ago? I went inside and asked to see the camera and how much it cost. Read on to find out more about the secondhand beauty I found!

Do you love Lomography's Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400 film? Me too! So let's see what it does when we shoot it through an assortment of color filters. I tried to document everything well enough that others could replicate and experiment on their own. I hope you find it useful.

On my last article about the poor man's Leica, the FED 5B, I wrote about the physical aspects of the camera, including the shutter speed, weight of the camera, the lens and the precaution. One other things special about this old Russian camera is about its lens mount!

If you are owner of Yashica electro 35 GSN camera, then you should take a closer look at Lomo electra 112. Is it just for me, or these both cameras really look like sisters? Well lets find out what kind of likeness and differences they have.

The Dacora Kamerawerk is another one of those stunning German camera producers, but this time not from Eastern Germany, but Western Germany, and to be more precise somewhere between Baden Württenberg and Bavaria! Let's discover one of the top camera models of this Camera factory: the Dacora Dignette Super E-B.

When I was at school, and I was learning French, I never understood why the French language described inanimate objects as either masculine or feminine, similarly, in German. In the English language we just have things. It is a table. It is not feminine or masculine, transgender not even just going through a phase. It is simply a table nothing more. As I grew up and became more interested in my own language the thought of non gender specific objects disappointed me. I think for all the richness and complexity of the English language, for the times we were conquered and our language evolved; that we don’t feminise or masculinise objects is to our linguistic detriment. Of course the problem is that it is not the thing that is masculine or feminine, it is the prefix to the word itself in the construct of the language that denotes gender. So, in English a camera can never be referred to as male of female because the prefix “the” or “a” is with out gender and renders the object itself sexless. Or does it? My case and point to you is the Balda Baldessa

These few months, I've been uploading little by little the pictures this girl takes. I think I've tried with enough film types and light conditions as to do a proper review of my friend: Jessy the Yashica MG-1.

The Konica Auto S2 - It's an amazingly sharp rangefinder! Not a fan of fiddling with f/stops? Use auto exposure mode. Sure, it's a bit bulkier than other rangefinders, but I think it will be hard to beat the lens if you like sharp photos.

The Argus C3, a range finder camera affectionately known by its many lovers as "the
Brick", is an artifact right out of the early mid-19th century machine age. The front of
the camera is covered in gears, and it could easily pass for a highly specialized
scientific measuring device at first glance. It is constructed of heavy Bakelite and
metal, so you can guess that it's about as heavy as a brick...hence the nickname.

Still a popular 35mm rangefinder camera both for beginner and intermediate film photographers today, the original Yashica Electro 35 was introduced in 1966 and got several upgrades until the early 1970s. Find out more about this camera after the jump!